As is common in many European cities, Helsinki has a Christmas market which ran through December 23rd. There were a multitude of little brown stalls each selling hand-knitted gloves, scarves, hats, sweaters, and shawls, as well as kiosks with traditional Christmas ornaments. Of course, they also sold traditional Christmas food and drink (ginger cookies, spiced mulled wine) and some not-traditional-outside-the-Nordics Christmas items (pickled herring, smoked salmon, fish pastries).
All the lighting on the stalls, trees, and nearby shops made everything look especially festive since there was barely any daylight to compete with the twinkle twinkle of holiday-induced electricity. Unfortunately, that made it hard to take very good pictures -- this was the best I could do.
The store lighting came out especially poorly...
No comments:
Post a Comment